A Handy Guide for Beggars: Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity / Being Sundry Explorations, Made While Afoot and Penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These Adventures Convey and Illustrate the Rules of Beggary for Poets and Some Others.

Chapter 2: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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About This Book

A series of episodic travel sketches and lyrical interludes records the narrator's afoot wanderings through Southern and Eastern states, combining practical rules for itinerant poets with vivid vignettes of hospitality, rejection, and small-town characters. Anecdotes range from freight-ride adventures and mountain baths to encounters with moonshiners and kindly householders, set amid reflections on voluntary poverty, artistic devotion, and the Gospel of Beauty. Interspersed poems and allegorical passages punctuate the narrative, offering both comic episodes and earnest meditations on artistic pilgrimage and the ethics of begging.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author desires to express his indebtedness to The Outlook for permission to reprint the adventures in the South and to Charles Zueblin for permission to reprint the adventures in the East.

The author desires to express his indebtedness to the Chicago Herald for permission to reprint The Would-be Merman, and to The Forum for What the Sexton Said, and to The Yale Review for The Tramp’s Refusal.

The author wishes to express his gratitude to Mr. George Mather Richards, Miss Susan Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ide and Miss Grace Humphrey for their generous help and advice in preparing this work.